playa (2022) (Patreon)

This shot is from NV-447 south of Gerlach, off the Pyramid Lake Scenic Byway. (In short, it's south of the playa where Burning Man is held.) I was thinking about Burning Man since it was just in the headlines and I had a few friends there, and while I never made it to the playa itself while I was in Nevada, this seemed close enough. It is a gorgeous wide-open desert landscape and while I don't really "get" Burning Man, I do understand why the location appeals to people, because I used to camp (solo!) in places like that all the time.

It's still weird to edit old shots of my van. I try not to regret much, but I feel a little twinge of regret anyway when I post a Marsha archival shot, because I miss that van. It was likely for the best, but I need to get another off-roader to actually move on; I've already taken the Camry places it shouldn't be, but it's not quite the same.

In other news, I'm performing final tweaks to my "historic" self-portrait project and will be posting it on either itch/io or gumroad soon this week as 1865-1905, Volume 1 of (????). I decided I wanted the feeling of success of completing something, even if it's not as expansive as I initially dreamed it being. I will still plan on a Volume 2 at some point with the twentieth century, and I'll get more ambitious with it if this does well. I'll post a link to Volume 1 in one of the daily photo posts once I have it listed.